Kevin, I’m with you. I have Windows Vista Ultimate running on a Motion M1400 with 2 gigs of ram. It works just fine. It wakes up from sleep mode in about 8 seconds. Hibernation takes about 15 seconds to wake up from. The only thing that Vista won’t let me do is author dvds. That’s just fine with me. I don’t use it as a desktop replacement. Its a mobile computer. It does MS Office, OneNote, Web browsing and email with out a glitch. I’ve even done some light photo editing while out on location.

So far, I like Vista on a mobile

I think EVERY hardware vendor wants what their CUSTOMERS are asking for: XP XP XP.

If MS was smart, they’d get cracking on my idea for “Windows Express.”

Probably too late for them.

MS: The New Palm!

As far as I’m reading embedded XP system developers at OEM level involved in industrial control systems built on XP are talking 5-10 years return on investment this could see XP with support until 2018. Theres life in the old dog yet!!

Quote”PC technology has been adopted widely across the industrial automation marketplace for its lower cost and ease of use, and Microsoft’s Operating Systems have inevitably formed a part of that. Functions such as data analysis and system visualisation for GUIs have become easier using standard Microsoft tools and operating systems. However, 5-10 year ROI and support plans for industrial technology, where systems are built for a set purpose don’t sit well with the drive to increase performance and the support of new technologies prevalent in the desktop PC marketplace.